A valuable lesson for Americans. Earlier this year, my column asked, "Will the West Defend Itself?" I pointed out that America's leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. I wonder whether they also want to import European policies that created barbaric extremism among its Muslim population. France's ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Can We Learn From Europe?
A valuable lesson for Americans. Earlier this year, my column asked, "Will the West Defend Itself?" I pointed out that America's leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. I wonder whether they also want to import European policies that created barbaric extremism among its Muslim population. France's ... MOREFeds Collect Record 2015 Tax Haul: $19,346 Per Worker
by Michael Lotfi. Gov't overspent by nearly $530 billion anyway. According to a monthly treasury statement, through the first eleven months of fiscal year 2015 (Oct. 1, 2014 – end of August), the United States federal government has collected a record-breaking haul in tax revenue. In total, the feds have collected over $2.8 trillion so far, which ... MOREGreat News! Americans Don’t Care About Climate Change
by David Harsanyi. Sanity returns. There is a preventable calamity out there, purportedly the root
cause of nearly all wars, refugee crises, sickness, misogyny, terrorism,
hunger, poverty, and everything else troubling mankind these days. The
world is perpetually on the precipice of catastrophe—despite much evidence to the contrary — if we ... MOREJeannie DeAngelis: Syrian Refugees - 'Trust Not The horse'
UN says 72% of refugees are male. If one were to ask your everyday educationally challenged American what a Trojan horse is, the answer would probably include at least one reference to an equine-sized condom. Conversely, on the Syrian-Turkish border, where ISIS militants are more interested in world domination than they are safe sex, ... MOREThe Newest Obama Lie: We Can Vet The Syrian Refugees
by Ed Straker. Deploying the honor system with terrorists. Both Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have called for the US to accept more Syrian refugees, as long as they are properly "vetted", of course. But what does it mean to "vet" a refugee? Normally, if someone wants to come into the United States, say, from France or Germany, our government ... MOREThomas Sowell: Stop The Bleeding
Europe is learning a painful lesson. There was a painful irony when France's immediate response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was to close the borders. If they had closed the borders decades ago, they might have avoided this attack. Someone once said that the First World War was the most stupid thing that European nations ever did. Countries ... MOREMap Shows Where Syrian Refugees Have Resettled In USA
From Turlock, CA to Kissimmee, FL. The refugees who have arrived from Syria since 2012 have been placed in 130 towns and cities. They are among the most vulnerable people in the war: single mothers and their children; religious minorities; victims of violence or torture. Some of them have reached large cities like Houston, but most have ... MOREDespite Paris Attacks, Obama Administration Moves To Increase And Accelerate The Number Of Syrian Refugees
An invitation to catastrophe. The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday. The move comes after President Barack Obama pledged in September to ... MOREAndrew Follett: Obama Policies Exacerbate Wildfires
It is not global warming. Scientists and lawmakers are placing the blame for recent wildfires on President Barack Obama’s policies, not global warming. “Our nation’s forests are sick and flammable, but they don’t have to be. Proper management would increase their resilience to wildfires.” said Julia Slingsby, Press Secretary of the House ... MOREMike Bird: This Is How A Central Bank Could Kill Off Cash And Bring In Negative Interest Rates On Your Savings
A bank may not be the best place for your money. Since the financial crisis, the world's understanding of economics has been undergoing a lot of rapid change. Ideas that would have been considered crazy just a decade ago are now seen as much more likely. One of those ideas is that central banks could bring in negative interest rates. ... MOREWalter E Williams: Destroying Your Vote
Election integrity is not racist. Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that's because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification. Interesting enough is the fact that I've never heard of a challenge to other ID requirements as racist, such as those: ... MOREHow Climate Change Activism Harms Third World Countries
by Shikha Dalmia. To avert a tragedy, they'll cause one. You wouldn't know it from the happy spin emanating from the Oval Office, but a Third World revolt in Bonn, Germany, this week almost derailed the Paris climate change negotiations in November. Although peace has been restored for now, it only happened by papering over this ... MOREDanny Vinik: Obama’s Effort To ‘Nudge’ America
Government using behavioral science to shape behavior. For the past year, the Obama administration has been running an experiment: Is it possible to make policy more effective by using psychology on citizens? The nickname is “nudging”—the idea that policymakers can change people’s behavior just by presenting choices or information ... MORESenator Mike Lee: Let's Be Honest About The Debt Limit
Here we go again. The federal government has predictably maxed out its credit card for the fifth time in the last four years. The Treasury Department now insists there will be “catastrophic economic consequences” unless the debt limit is raised by Nov. 3. If that wasn’t depressing enough, consider that Congress has less than two ... MOREWhy Overregulation Of Payday Lenders Is A Bad Idea
by Veronique de Rugy. Combating bad ideas would be much easier if they were all backed by ill intent. More often than not, however, the opposite is true, and the worst government policies are enacted with the intention to help. Such is apparently the case with the aggressive campaign by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to ... MOREThe National Security Case For Free-Market Energy
by James Carafano. The House has passed legislation calling for liberalizing energy exports.
Two Senate committees have approved similar bills. Whether the
legislation becomes law this year remains unknown. But even if the bill
doesn’t make it, pressure on Washington will continue to build. At the height of the “energy crisis” in the 1970s, ... MOREStephen Moore: America's $12 Trillion House of Cards
A precarious situation indeed. What is the price tag for the audacious Obamanomics experiment? How much has it all cost — the bailouts, the debt, the stimulus plans, the printing of cheap money, Obamacare and all the rest? The answer to that question is just shy of $12 trillion. That's the sum of the $8.3 trillion added to the national ... MORE
The Underbelly Of The California Drought
by Victor Davis Hanson. People should be represented as well as salmon. Even the high mountain lakes and reservoirs are about empty – and equally void of vacationers who have few places to boat, fish, and ski, and are unsure where the next forest fire will break out and force evacuations on often one-lane winding mountain roads. Four years of ... MORE
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